Eye



Patented Aa 17, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT orerc JNDRICH WALDES, or PRAGE, ,CZECHQSLOVAKIA.

EYE.

Applcation filed December23, 1924. Serial No. 757,594.

Myinvention relates to fastening devices and more particularly to that class of such devices which are commonly referred to as hooks and eyes and has for its object to provide a novel form of eye which is practical and economical to manufacture andis easy tion will be fully described hereinafter and.

the features of novelty will be pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which show an example of the invention without defining its limits, Fig. 1 is a face view of one form of the novel eyes applied to a conventional tape; and Fig. 2 is an en larged view of one of said eyes in position on said tape.

The eye comprises a bow or loop 5 which may be of the general shape shown in the illustrated example or of other suitable form and into which the cooperating hook of the fastening device or any other co-acting element is engaged, when the eye is in active use. The novel feature consists in providing such eye with two eyelets or their equivalent for the accommodation of fastening means or elements whereby said eye is fixed in place, one of said eyelets being located in close proximity to the aforesaid how 5 and the other being positioned at a distance therefrom. This result may be attained by bending the one leg of the eye back upon itself or by having one leg shorter, and in either case forming the indicated leg with an eyelet at its free end. In the illustrated example, the eye comprises one leg 6 which may be of customary length or somewhat longer than usual and terminates in an eyelet 7 and a second leg 8 considerably shorter and provided at its free end with an eye let 9 located in close proximity to the bow or loop 5. The eyelets 7 and 9 may be formed by curling or bending the wire of the legs 6 and 8 in the same directions as shown or in opposite directions as may be desired or, if the eyes are made of material other than wire, said eyelets may be otherwise formed; in any event however the eyelet 7 is at a distance from the how or loop 5 while theeyelet 9 is in close proximity to the l1tter, the arrangement being such that an imaginary line passing through the centers ofsaid eyelets will lieobliquely or diagonally to anv pull to which the eye may be sub jected in use.

The legs 6 and 8 divergerearwardly from the loop 5 in the manner illustrated in the.

drawing, the longer leg 6 extending sub stantially parallel to the line of pull exerted on the loop, and the shorter leg 8 extending at a divergent angle to thelonger leg.

In the preferred form, the eye is riveted to a tape 10 of suitable material and width, by means of rivetsl1 passing through the eyelets 7 and 9 and the tape 10 as indicated in Fg. 1. The eyes are fastened to the tape 10 at predetermined distances apart and are so,located thereon that the aforesaid imaginary line passing through the eyelets 7 and 9 of each eye will extehd diagonally or obliquely to the longitudinal center line of said tape. It will be understood that the rivets 11 may be replaced by other fastening means, such as stitching for securing the eyes in place and further that the eyes may be attached directly to the material of a garment or the like and that in such case the same advantages result from the use of the eye.

In any case, by reason of the position of the eyelets 7 and 9 with respect to the bow or loop 5, the eye will lie perfectly flat upon the tape 10 or other material and will remain so even under any pulling strain to which said eye may be subjected in use; in other words the loop 5 will not tend to swing upon the rivets 11 or equivalent fastening means as is the case where such rivets or their equivalent and the eyelets are located in line with each other in the direction of the length of the tape 10. Under such strains as occur during the use of hooks and eyes the above construction of the eye avoids gaping of the garment and distributes the aforesaid strains to the tape 10 or other material in such amanner that practically no objectionable distortion of the garment or its equivalent takes place. It will be understood that the tape 10, which is sold with the eyes attached thereto, is secured in place in the garment or otherwise in the customary manner; obviously, the novel eyes may be sold sepaiately in quantities or in predetermined numbers upon cards for use as desired. The improved eyes may be used Ill in combination with the conventional hooks or in conjunction with specially constructed hooks. r

Various changes in the specific form shown and described may be made within the scope of the claim without departing from the spirit of my' invention.

I claim: r

An eye fastener of the book and eye type, comprising a length of wire bent to form a loop with which a hook is adapted to he detachahly engaged, a pair of legs of unequal length diverging rearwardly from said loop, and a pair of securing eyelets one at the end of each of said legs, the lo11 er of said legs extending in a direction sulistantially parallel to the line of pull exerted by said hook, and the eyelet at the end of the shorter leg being located on the inner side thereof closely adjacent to said loop to hold the latter flat upon the abric with which said fastener is adaptedto be associated, and to hold the hook substantially centrally of said loop, and said eyelet being spaced from said longer leg laterally thereof a sufiicient distance to providea clearance space through which the bill of the hook disengagement from said loop.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

J INDRICH WALDES.

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